Car-fender.



No. 627,7|3 Patented -lune 27,v |899.

' C. B. WOOD.

GAR FENDER. (Application filed July 1S, 1898.)

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CAB FENDER. (Application-med Julyls; l189s.)

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UNiTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES B. VOOD, OF FOXBOROGH, MASSACHUSETTS.

CAR-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 627,713, dated une 27',1899.

Application filed July 18, 1898. Serial No. 686,261. (No model.)

To all whom it' may concern,.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES B.'WooD, of Foxborough, in the county ofNorfolk and State of Massachusetts,have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Car-Fenders, of which the following is a description.

sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable those skilled in the artto which it appertains with electric cars.

reference is to be had to the annexed draw-V ings, and to the lettersmarked thereon, forming a part of this specification, the same lettersdesignating the same partsor features, as the case may be, wherever theyoccur.

Of the drawings, Figure lis a side elevation of my improved fenderattached to the front end of a car, a portion of the improvement beingshown in section. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view of the invention asshown in Fig. 1, the section being taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. l. Fig.3 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view taken on the line 3 3 ofFig. 2. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a modified form of the invention.Fig. 5 is a transverse vertical sectional view taken on the line 5 5 ofFig. 4.

In the drawings, a designates the front end of a railway-car, such as anelectric car, provided with a buffer or similar device b, to which therear'end of myimproved fender is pivoted.

The body part of my fender is composed of a series ofhorizontally-arranged tubes c, connected at their rear ends-toa crosstube or rod d, which is in turn connected by suitable connecting rods ortubes e with the part f, pivoted to the brake-bar or other suitablemeans connected with thetruck or body of the car below the buffer. Thetubes c at vtheir forward ends extend through a bolster or bar g.

Within the side tubes, or it may be all of the tubes, for that matter,there are arranged springs h, which bear at their inner ends againstthebottom ofthe tubes c and at their forward ends against the rods t',inserted in the tubes, which rods are at their outer ends connected witha cross bar or rod j. 'The arrangement is such `that when the rods t'are free the springs h will press them outward beyond the bolster or barg; but they may be latched in any other rearward position, asrepresented in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, as will be presently described.

Above the tubes or bars c there is arranged a platform 7o, which restsupon springs l. Instead of theplatform being a flat piece of metal, asshown, it may be composed of any other substanoe-as, for instance,netting-- or anything else that will render it capable when a person isthrown thereon of depressing the rod Z', upon which the platformnormally rests, which rod will depress the inner end lof a lever m andraise the outer end of said lever, upon which outer end there isconnected a catch device n, which engages a hook or pin 0 on a buftingrod or bar p, connected with the lower end of a frame q, pivoted at itsouter end on a rod r and operated upon bya spring s to normally "throwthe buffing-bar 29 or free end of the frame q upward.

The buffer bar or rod p is made of rubber, or it may be a rubber tubeinflated with air, so that when it strikes a person or object it mayyield in such way as not to injure a person, as it would if it were madehard or rigid.

The catch n is made as a roller having a pin as a journal. Thisconstruction provides an antifriction-bearing between it and thecatch-pin o, so that there will be easy action between these parts andsothat the frame q will be easily released when it encounters an obj ectin order that it may be thrown upward.

The operation of the parts thus far described is such that if a personor object should be thrown upon the platform k it will depress the rodor rods Z and release the frame q and throw it upward. At the Sametimethat the frame q is released and thrown up- IOO ward, as indicated bydotted lines in Fig. 4, the rods i', which were held back by thedepressed fraine q against the stress of the springs h, as beforeindicated, will be thrown outward, as indicated also by dotted lines inFig. 4. Now to set the device the rods t' will be pressed back to theirfull-line position, as represented in the drawings, and the catch n willbe caught over the pin 0 on the bufling-bar p of the frame q, and thusthe rods z' will be held back and the bar p be depressed. Should the barp of the fenderframe q strike an object, such as a person, on the track,the person would be tripped so as to fall upon the platform 7c,depressing the rod Z,operating the lever m to release the catch fa,raise it out from engagement with the pin o, and so releasing thebuffer-frame q that the spring s will be thrown upward, tripping theperson and raising his feet on the bung-bar, when the rods t or theirfront connecting-bar will be thrust upward, as indicated by` dottedlines in Fig. 4, and form a support for the persons feet, so that hecaunot again fall upon the ground.

If desired, side bars or tubes t may be arranged at the sides of theplatform k to prevent a person tripped from rolling off the platform or,if he should roll off, from falling upon the ground near the track.

The front end of my improved fender may be mounted upon wheels u to runupon a track, or it may be connected rigidly with the front end of acar, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, so as to operate free ofsupporting-wheels.

Vhen the fender is mounted upon wheels, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3,it will take the curve of a track as soon as it reaches it and notproject a long way in front of the car over the track as it would whenaffixed to the front end of the car, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5, and nottake the curve until the forward truck of the car did so.

The prime object of the invention is to provide a fender which will notonly trip the person on the track so thatlhe may fall upon asafe-keeping fender, but which will at the Sametime thrust out a supportfor his feet, so thathe maynot again fall upon the ground.

Having th ns explained the nature of the invention and described a way fconstructing land using the same, though Without attempting to set forthall of the forms in which it may be made or all of the modes of its use,it is declared that what is claimed isl. A car-fender embodying in itsconstruc tion a depressible platform, atripping-frame and aforwardly-movable frame to be thrust under a part of a person or objecttripped, combined with means operatively connected with the depressibleplatform and the forwardly-movable frame to release the latter when theformer is depressed.

2. A car-fender adapted to be attached to the front end of a car, adepressible platform, a frame adapted to be extended forward by springsbut to be locked in rearward position, a tripping-fralne adapted to beraised by spring action but to be locked in downward position, andoperativemeans between the platform and frames to release them to beoperated upon by their springs.

3. In a car-fender a depressible springraised platform, a pivotedtripping-rod having its outer edge or end adapted to Iiy upward,latching means, and means between the latch and platform whereby thedepression of the latter will release the former.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses, this 29th day of June, A. D.1898.

CHARLES B. VOOD. lVitnesses:

ARTHUR W. CRossLEY, ARTHUR F. RANDALL.

